Category: Milwaukee Government

One of the very few times that elected City Attorney Tearman Spencer did the right thing. He too is a thorn in the city’s side but that will have to wait until the next city election cycle. But today he fired Assistant City Attorney Jennifer DeMaster. Here’s my take from…

Wonder what it is? Well Zach wrote it just short of ten years ago: Let’s discuss Bob Donovan’s 1992 citation for disorderly conduct. Normally I’d let sleeping dogs lie but this has pulled phenomenal interest: 953 views last week…550 more than a more current but second most popular item…so some…

JHC! This woman needs to be gone from City of Milwaukee government…like yesterday: One of Milwaukee’s assistant city attorneys went on a Russian state-controlled television network this week to opine on the lead-up to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Her take: Nothing to see here. Specifically, assistant city attorney Jennifer…

We recently discussed Milwaukee Mayoral Candidate Bob Donovan’s attempt to smear Acting Mayor Cavalier Johnson on social media…a social media thread that his campaign apparently deleted after thinking about it a bit more. But apparently the former alderman isn’t one to easily give up on a favorite line of disinformation….

I hope he doesn’t think that West Allis is part of Milwaukee…there are a lot of West Allis residents who would take umbrage with that…but given some of his other miscues, I wouldn’t be totally surprised. But yes, on Sunday, Milwaukee Mayoral candidate Bob Donovan made an obvious campaign appearance…

Now the social media truism, if there aren’t pictures it didn’t happen. Well there aren’t any pictures…my bad. But it did happen but because I don’t have screen grabs here I will do my best to paraphrase the event from memory. SO…most of our regulars know that former Alderman Bob…

Conservative. This has always been an adjective added to former Milwaukee Alderman Bob Donovan’s name in any media discussing his time on the Common Council or his attempts to run for Mayor of Milwaukee. And now with no incumbent in the race to replace former Mayor Tom Barrett, Bob Donovan…

With the appointment and confirmation of incumbent Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett as US Ambassador to Luxembourg, Milwaukee has an opportunity to bring a new and younger voice to the mayor’s office. And I am proud to endorse my friend, Common Council President Cavalier “Chevy” Johnson for Mayor of Milwaukee. I…

A few days ago, I finally put down my thoughts about redoing Milwaukee’s very badly broken Fire and Police Commission. But the mayor and the common council really shouldn’t wait too long because it looks like the GOP in Madison have the FPC in their sights. And the last thing…

This was one of the posts that I meant to finish in that catch up Friday some weeks ago. But I never got to it, partly because I kinda burned out that day and partly because it seems impossible to completely get my head around. I started working on this…